PATERSON — City police are investigating shootings that occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning, leaving one person dead and another seriously injured.

Paterson Police patrol units responded to multiple calls of shots fired near North 6th Street and Temple Street at 3:50 a.m. and found a black man, 27 to 28, lying on the sidewalk dead from a gunshot wound, Capt. Herbierto Rodriguez said.

After discovering the man, the officers found a black woman who had been shot once near 58 North 6th Street, Rodriguez said. She was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital and was in critical condition, he said.

On Sunday morning a teal-colored BMW peppered with gunshots sat outside a white-and-orange apartment building on North 6th Street. The back window of the BMW was splintered and a single bullet hole was on the right-side of the car’s front windshield.

Later, investigators towed the car off North 6th Street while neighborhood residents huddled with one another trying to make sense of what had happened overnight.

“I just woke up but I had a feeling last night – with the crowd that was already out here, I just knew it was only a matter of time before something happened and someone became an innocent bystander,” said Jose Ramirez, a resident of Temple Street.

By 11 a.m. on Sunday, with the BMW removed from the street, a dark smear of blood surrounded by purple medical gloves was left on the pavement.

Police have released no further information on the victims and have made no arrests in the shootings.